After saying hello to everyone in the living room, Liu Xing couldn't help but mention Watanabe Meteor and the others next door, "The visitor is a guest, since Watanabe Meteor and they have all joined us and become one of us, then we have to do a good job as a host and let them feel the warmth of home... ”

When Liu Xing said this, he saw that everyone present was looking at him with a very strange look.

Obviously, Yin En and the others felt that what Liu Xing said was too fake and empty.

So, Liu Xing could only shake his head and say: "Okay, I admit that what I said is a little unreliable, so I'll tell you what I really think, although Watanabe Meteor brought the Yellow Cloth Sect to join us, but this is just an expedient measure that Watanabe Meteor didn't have a better choice for a while, and then made it, so the cooperative relationship between Watanabe Meteor and us is actually not solid, or we are just superficial allies, even if we assisted Watanabe Meteor yesterday to bring back the members of the Yellow Cloth Sect who stayed on Mount Fuji." ”

"So, I think it's necessary for us to pull Watanabe Meteor and Ishikawa Ling and other important members of the Yellow Coat Sect into our decision-making level as much as possible, so that we can increase their sense of participation, so that they can truly bind us together, so that we can better borrow the power of the Yellow Coat Sect to make up for the numerical disadvantage of our Sawada family, so what do you think of my thoughts? If I can, I'll go find Watanabe Meteor and come over now? ”

As players, Yin En and the others know very well why Liu Xing did this, the reason is to put it bluntly because "Watanabe Meteor" and "Ishikawa Ling" are Liu Xing and Yin En's character cards, and worshipping the Huangyi Sect can be regarded as Liu Xing and others spending several modules to have such a scale, so in order to avoid "Watanabe Meteor" and "Ishikawa Ling" from making a wrong decision, causing them to have an accident themselves, worshiping the Huangyi Sect is greatly damaged, and now they have to include them in the nominal "in-depth cooperation" of their group, in fact" Long-arm jurisdiction".

Therefore, Liu Xing's proposal was not opposed, so Yin En followed Liu Xing to find Watanabe Meteor and Ishikawa Ling next door.

Because during this time, members of various families and secret churches continued to enter Osaka on a large scale, so Osaka Castle prepared a variety of building materials to ensure that various specifications of accommodation can be established in a short period of time, so as one of the ten major forces of the samurai faction - the secret church affiliated to the Sawada family, the logistics department of the samurai faction did not treat Watanabe Meteor and others badly, they directly built a new manor next door to Sawada Manor, although the configuration of this manor is to be "simpler", In addition to the main building, which is a two-storey building made of all-timber structure, it is surrounded by a circle of small bungalows made of prefabricated plastic steel panels.

However, the living conditions are already very good, because many of the other members of the samurai faction who have just arrived in Osaka still live in "houses" converted from shipping containers or in so-called capsule hotels.

One thing to say, although Liu Xing has never been to a capsule hotel, he has been lying in an MRI machine when he was practicing in the hospital, which feels like a bad place for people with claustrophobia... Although Liu Xing felt that he should not be claustrophobic, for a period of time after that day, Liu Xing would turn on his notebook as a night light every night when he went to sleep.

Soon, Liu Xing and the others found Watanabe Meteor, who was chatting with Ishikawa Ling and others at this time, and it seemed that he hadn't eaten breakfast yet.

So, Liu Xing invited Watanabe Meteor and others to go over for breakfast and talk about the next actions by the way.

Watanabe Meteor also seemed to have expected Liu Xing and the others to do this, so he agreed to Liu Xing's invitation without hesitation, leaving only Guchuan Xiaofu to arrange the breakfast of the others.

When Liu Xing and his party returned to the living room of Sawada Manor, Sawada Yayin and the others had already sat down.

After a few words of greeting, Sawada Yayin took the lead in getting to the point, "In the early hours of this morning, Mount Fuji gradually quieted down, and now everything has returned to its original state, and nothing else has been found near Mount Fuji except for some more volcanic ash, and no trace of the Yaqi Orochi's departure from Mt. Fuji has been found, so Liu Xing, your guess is likely to be correct, maybe the Yaki Orochi is not in Mt. Fuji." ”

Speaking of this, Sawada Yayin couldn't help but shake his head, and said a little helplessly: "For some reason, Taketori chose to leave here temporarily, of course, this must be related to the Yaki Orochi, and the Muhua Kaiyehime behind the Yaki Orochi, but we definitely can't tell anyone else this news, after all, the reason why our Sawada family can have a place in the samurai faction is definitely inseparable from Taketori." ”

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows, knowing that when he and Yin En went to invite Watanabe Meteor and others over, Sawada Yayin and his party must have discussed, and finally decided to tell Watanabe Meteor and others about the news of Taketori's departure, and emphasized that this news cannot be spread outside, so to put it bluntly, it is telling Watanabe Meteor and others that we have treated you as a family, so we haven't even kept such important news secret from you, so you don't let us down.

Of course, Watanabe Meteor did not disappoint Liu Xing and the others, and when he realized that Sawada Yayin wanted his party to show loyalty, he immediately said: "Of course, we will definitely keep this secret, but can I ask a small question?" That is, did Taketori say when she would return? ”

Looking at Watanabe Meteor, who was not seen at all, Sawada Yayin nodded and said, "Taketori left me a letter before leaving, and it mentioned that she will come back after the dust settles, that is, she can be sure that Cthulhu and Kinoha Kaiyeki will not come back to find trouble for themselves, and she also left a few emergency contact information that will come to help us if necessary." ”

After a pause, Sawada continued, "By the way, didn't you get into a car accident on the road when you came back yesterday?" After this night's investigation, we can already determine that there is a problem with this car accident, because there have been many car accidents at the junction of the public faction and the samurai faction recently, and these car accidents are basically rear-end collisions, although the owners of the front and rear cars feel that it is the fault of the other party, but after detailed inquiry, we found that these car owners all admitted that at the moment of the car accident, they were actually suddenly a little distracted, and when they came back to their senses, they found that they had been in a car accident. ”

"If there are only one or two car accidents that have a similar situation, then it may be a coincidence, but almost all car owners have mentioned this situation, then it means that someone must be behind this to secretly operate all this, and now it can be ruled out that it is a good thing done by our own people of the samurai faction, but we can't be sure that this is the public faction doing sabotage, because it doesn't do them any good, unless they buy a few repair shops ready to make money."

Hearing Sawada Yayin say this, Zhang Jingxu frowned and said: "In this case, there is a person or a force doing these things, so why do they do this?" What's in it for them? ”

Everything has a cause and effect, so these car accidents must be able to bring benefits to some people or forces, and these people or forces will be in the mood to do it, but judging from the current situation, it seems that the owners of nearby repair shops will be happy to see such a situation.

"Wait, the first thing we need to analyze is not who the vested interests in this matter are, but we should first figure out why these car accidents happened, or why those car owners suddenly lost their minds."

Yin En touched his chin and said seriously: "Judging from the current situation, these car accidents are all alone, that is to say, the person who caused these car accidents can accurately control the car accidents of those vehicles, and will not affect other cars around, if we rule out that the mastermind behind all this is a random matter, then these car owners he chooses should have something in common, so he will take action against them." ”

"That's right, that's what we thought too, but after a simple investigation, we've found a common trait of these car owners, and they're all middle-aged men over forty years old." Sawada Yayin replied, "So we now speculate that the reason why these car owners suddenly wander is likely to be affected by some kind of spell or black technology equipment, and then because these car owners are already middle-aged, it is normal for them to suddenly wander their minds occasionally, so it is not easy to attract the attention of themselves and the people around them; But if it is ruled out that the culprit behind all this is just trying to do a big prank, then the possibility we can think of is two words - sanity. ”

Reason?

SAN value?

Liu Xing and the others all frowned, and looked at Sawada Yayin with some surprise.

Sawada Yayin sighed and continued, "Reason is indeed a rather abstract concept, and it is very similar to spirit, reason, and the like, but I and others think that reason is a very unique thing... Okay, I can't really say exactly what this sanity is, but I know that when we first see certain mythical creatures, we lose some of our minds, and at least they suddenly lose their minds, and if they are heavier, they go crazy. ”

"So we very much suspect that the masterminds behind these car accidents are trying to obtain a certain amount of reason from these car owners through some special means, and now we don't know whether they are restricted by some kind of restriction or are worried about attracting the attention of others, so they only absorb a little sense each time; As for what these intellects can be used for, I've heard others talk about it, and that is to use these colorless, tasteless, or even disembodied intellects as a very special additive. ”

At this time, Alice suddenly answered: "That's right, although this so-called reason is very metaphysical to say, and it itself cannot be seen or touched, but it does exist, so it can be turned into an additive with a wide range of effects as long as it is turned into a wide range of effects through some special means; My master once saw a machine in a special warehouse at the University of Miskatonik that could make a so-called rational solution, which could fuse the mind in a special liquid, which could then be added to food, drinking water, and all sorts of other products, and if all went well, people would be able to regain their sanity after eating the food, drinking the water, and using these products, or their sanity would not be lost so easily. ”

Alice's words made Liu Xing and other players tremble, because the "sanity products" described by Alice are those props that allow people to restore their SAN value, but they didn't expect that these props that can restore their SAN value are actually made of other people's SAN value as raw materials.

This made Liu Xing can't help but think of the cup of tea that Ryoko Kanna brought to him a long time ago... If what Alice said is true, then if Ryoko Kanna wants to make such a good "tea", I am afraid that she has to pick a lot of "tea leaves" from many "tea trees", and finally after careful selection, she can only cook such a good "tea" by boiling it slowly.

This makes Liu Xing feel a little scary, because this is like the blood recovery medicine you often use in other RPG games, if suddenly an NPC comes over and tells you that the important part of these blood recovery drugs is actually other people's blood, and a bottle of blood recovery medicine that can only restore you to one-tenth of your blood volume requires the whole body blood of ten people to be able to make it, then you will still use these blood recovery drugs without any scruples?

But more importantly, where do these sanities, or rather sans, come from?

The direct point of the question is that these items that can restore the SAN value, are there any other players' SAN values in them as raw materials?

If these SAN values are taken from NPCs, then Liu Xing feels relatively acceptable, but if these SAN values are from other players, Liu Xing suddenly feels a sense of guilt and guilt, because he can survive in the mod by other players, and these players have paid the price of their lives.

Of course, some of these thoughts are too extreme.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing sighed and said: "If this speculation is true, it means that the initiator of all this needs a large number of items that can restore his senses, but because he is either fighting alone, or in groups, in short, there are not enough people, so he is worried about being discovered by others, so he can only cause these small car accidents." ”